Anfields5thKing Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:35 am
rudeboyben84 wrote: Anfields5thKing wrote:Kos vs Condit is ideal. Fair play to Kos for stepping up to the plate time and again. It's odd that people felt GSP would beat Condit because of his wrestling but are backing Condit to beat an even better wrestler with more power in his hands and a better chin.
Kos offered to take the fight but It looks like Condit is wanting to wait on GSP.
I dont know that Kos has a better chin than GSP, people brand GSP Chinny too quickly, they both have 1 KO loss, Kos' P.Thiago and Serra both only have 2 KO's to their name so if Kos has a better chin its barely worth mentioning.
Also look at the Alves fights, GSP could get him down, Kos couldnt. GSP has a higher TD rate, his shot is a lot quicker and harder to stop because he is rediculously explosive. Best TD's in UFC so I dont see why Kos is better. If its about Controll on the ground thats all GSP does most fight, Smothers people boring ass wrestling contoll.
But Kos offers nothing except heavier hands than GSP, not to knock him as a fighter but anything he can do GSP can do better.
Kos has far better wrestling. He went through a phase of not training it and it cost him victories. Look at his two fights prior to fighting GSP the second time. Dominant wrestling. Rumble is an excellent wrestler, and he's huge with very very good takedown defence. Kos took him down with ease. GSP's wrestling is hugely over-rated. Look at their second fight when Kos was back training wrestling every day. GSP tried to take him down, failed miserably, stopped trying. Kos took GSP down with ease. He was limited in his ability to shoot in that fight because he was fighting with one eye and from a takedown point of view, that makes judging distance and avoiding punches very difficult. Kos is more powerful and explosive in his shot. Take out the fights he wasn't training wrestling for. The Alves fight was taken on two weeks notice and he came in drained having cut down from 191 in two weeks. Take out fights taken on short notice and the time he spent focusing purely on his hands and not his wrestling, and Koscheck's TD success percentage is right up there with GSP's.
GSP got KO'd by a fat lightweight who was much smaller than him. Kos got KOd by a guy that has fought at MW and has a shitload of power. He may only have 1 career KO with his hands but he's got 4 or 5 subs set up by punches that put guys on the verge of a nap. GSP has only 1 KO loss because he stopped fighting in a manner that left his chin exposed after the Serra fight and became a lay and pray and jab and jog merchant. Other than against Hughes who has no power, and Serra against whom he was proven a point and in reality didn't take any risks, GSP has been the safest fighter in the UFC in terms of taking risks. Koscheck also took that Thiago fight on short notice and it was a pretty questionable stoppage. GSP was knocked silly and had months to prepare.
GSP is a better fighter, no question but Kos has heavier hands, better wrestling and a better chin. GSP has better striker, moves better and has better head and foot movement and he's better at BJJ.
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